I think all this AI and vibe coding is exposing something very instrumental in America…
We all suck at our jobs.
I’m sorry to say…like, I thought it was just me, and it was just imposter syndrome, but nah. Everybody legit sucks.
Not me, I mean. I’m pretty good at my job. I’m sure you are, too. We’re just lazy and doing the bare minimum, and that’s totally fine, I get that. Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime. I hear you.
But like, everybody else. They all suck at their job. I don’t blame them, but it’s more than just not giving a fuck…like they are just legit a bad match for the job entirely. That’s what I’m talking about.
And we all just kinda limped along on mediocrity, and everything just sort of worked.
But now? That misaligned mediocrity has been amplified 1000x. Now we’ve got computer scripts that are trying to do jobs that people 1, didn’t want to do; 2, didn’t know how to do; and 3, didn’t desire to learn how to do better.
And that’s just tearing everything apart.
Programming is especially bad for this because it’s full of people who were told “you should go to school for computers! That’s where the money is!”. So they got into the field solely for the money (not because they had a legit interest in computers/technology/programming), racked up some debt, and found themselves stuck in a career as a code-monkey getting paid a surprisingly less-fulfilling salary than they were lead to expect.
There’s no passion, just overworked, misled, disgruntled people.
Like imagine learning how to write complex programs…by asking google how to do X in Y language and just reading the highest-rated stackoverflow comment.
That’s what’s being churned out.
The one thing I will say boomers did better is CompSci. Practically made the damn thing up as they went along, and was largely made up of passionate, neurospicy nerds. More “Woz”, less “Jobs”. Good for them.
Nowadays, seems so many tech “leaders” make Jobs look like a shy intern.
I think all this AI and vibe coding is exposing something very instrumental in America…
We all suck at our jobs.
I’m sorry to say…like, I thought it was just me, and it was just imposter syndrome, but nah. Everybody legit sucks.
Not me, I mean. I’m pretty good at my job. I’m sure you are, too. We’re just lazy and doing the bare minimum, and that’s totally fine, I get that. Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime. I hear you.
But like, everybody else. They all suck at their job. I don’t blame them, but it’s more than just not giving a fuck…like they are just legit a bad match for the job entirely. That’s what I’m talking about.
And we all just kinda limped along on mediocrity, and everything just sort of worked.
But now? That misaligned mediocrity has been amplified 1000x. Now we’ve got computer scripts that are trying to do jobs that people 1, didn’t want to do; 2, didn’t know how to do; and 3, didn’t desire to learn how to do better.
And that’s just tearing everything apart.
Programming is especially bad for this because it’s full of people who were told “you should go to school for computers! That’s where the money is!”. So they got into the field solely for the money (not because they had a legit interest in computers/technology/programming), racked up some debt, and found themselves stuck in a career as a code-monkey getting paid a surprisingly less-fulfilling salary than they were lead to expect.
There’s no passion, just overworked, misled, disgruntled people.
Like imagine learning how to write complex programs…by asking google how to do X in Y language and just reading the highest-rated stackoverflow comment.
That’s what’s being churned out.
The one thing I will say boomers did better is CompSci. Practically made the damn thing up as they went along, and was largely made up of passionate, neurospicy nerds. More “Woz”, less “Jobs”. Good for them.
Nowadays, seems so many tech “leaders” make Jobs look like a shy intern.
To rephrase another quote I feel relatable:
“What haunts me is that I am just not good enough in my craft for so many people to be worse.”
We’ve offloaded anything remotely creative to this giant ball of data called AI, and turned most people into robots.